[Ami] Horowitz then asks the interviewees, all of whom no doubt are “still feeling the Bern,” if they think that we should model ourselves on another country that promises “income equality”: Venezuela, which, he explains, is in the midst of an economic death spiral to the point where it is experiencing dire food shortages and frequent violence between citizens and police forces. Despite the hellish reality of Venezuela’s failed socialist state, all of his interviewees still thought Venezuela’s day-long food lines would be preferable to the United States’ selfish, “undignified” capitalistic system.

And they say this while in the East Village, one of Manhattan’s trendiest and priciest.

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Perhaps we could initiate an exchange program. I’m betting that we would have no problem finding volunteers from Venezuela who would give these geniuses their place in food lines for an “oppressed” life in NYC.